festival of albion (51/08)

this imaginary cultural identity we collectively hold, tugs strongest with memories of childhood. emotions cross-wiring communal media references with reminiscences of an imaginary upbringing. all that postwar nostalgia that bubbled in seventies television seems to resurfacing. think the skylon. seems thirty years is the threshold where we start reinventing our parents’ childhoods into this mythical hertiage.

a theme that appears in the music of epic45, infusing pastoral post-rock with an undertones of jg ballard. antony harding also plays in july skies who have a new album out, covering similair ground, perhaps with less field recordings and electronica, the studio’s copy is still in the post.